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“Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.”

Umberto Eco book Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.”

Umberto Eco

Source: Postscript to the Name of the Rose

“We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.”

Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.”

Umberto Eco book The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

Source: The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana

“Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.”

Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.”

Umberto Eco

Source: The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library

“Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.”

Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.”

Umberto Eco

Source: The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library

“It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.”

Umberto Eco book The Island of the Day Before

Source: The Island of the Day Before

“Each of us is sometimes a cretin, a fool, a moron, or a lunatic. A normal person is just a reasonable mix of these components, these four ideal types.”

Umberto Eco book Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.”

Umberto Eco book The Island of the Day Before

Source: The Island of the Day Before

“A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.”

Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.”

Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.”

Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.”

Umberto Eco

Source: Postscript to the Name of the Rose

“How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon.”

Umberto Eco book Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”

Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose

Variant: Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”" -
Source: The Name of the Rose

“I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly.”

Umberto Eco

Source: Postscript to the Name of the Rose

“How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by
the often perverse wisdom of man!”

Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose